Monday, December 14, 2009

Caught this from Twitter after a friend posted about her "iPod in San Francisco." I can't see the connection. I don't know what it means but the video made an impression. The use of the seasons, although clichéd, appealed to me (of course it did) and it reminded me of 500 days of Summer - this would best be fitting as a prequel but I'm 99% sure there is no connection.

The beginning dialogue sounds like a dude and his conscience remembering a time when he felt alive, when things mattered, when adventure was the only priority. I reflected on that. Also found the video to be inspiring and become less fearful of change and evolution.

I've actually got this whole album on my iPod, and have had it on there for a couple of months now, although I'm more partial to another song called "Love of an Orchestra".

I can see the "clichéness" when it comes to seasonal imagery, but when used deliberately and thoughtfully that detail has always made sense to me in a layering/story setup kind of way. Like at the end of 500 Days of Summer, when he meets Autumn, I take it as though the implication is that he's going to "fall" in love. And love is kind of like a cycle like that, well, and like a drug. There's a fascinating TED talk on the subject given by Helen Fisher. Seasonal imagery is again applicable, opening story revolves around the equinox. Essentially, a Mayan King and Queen, inscribed to have been deeply in love their whole marriage, had two temples built, and each temple's shadow overlaps, like an eternal embrace, at the Spring and Autumn equinox.

I will now go checkout that TED video. I agree with your thoughts on seasonal imagery when used deliberately and thoughtfully what is triggered is the "I'm a sucker and I love it" feeling which I actually don't mind from time to time. coincidentally, I've been thinking about love and its seasonality lately so your post couldn't have come at a better time.

The optical illusion post is the cover art for Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion album. Which is incredible and amazing in too many ways to show in this blogpost. I posted about it once before with a download link and all and am reuploading because the folk sat Megaupload killed it. Here's the post.

Thanks! I downloaded it, and I'm listening to it here and there, somehow I've gone all this time without realizing how much of their music I've been hearing, especially recently. Case in point, I was making a mixtape for a local coffee place a couple of weeks ago, the deal was make a mixtape in exchange for a cup of the house blend, anyways, Animal Collective was going strong over the sound system. As fate would have it, the owner isn't very fond of them, but somehow his friend convinced him to play a bit of it that day. I'm pretty sure In the Flowers was one of the songs that came on while I was there. That one stood out b/c I remembered that it kind of reminded me of T.V. on the Radio a little bit.

I'll have to check out your Fleet Foxes post, too. Believe it or not, I have that whole album as well, it's on my iPod, but I've not given it a lot of attention past a few random skim throughs (for better or worse, The Decemberists are getting more of my attention lately, and they just released some visual version of Hazards of Love). I've also got Fleet Foxes' Sun Giant album too. The songs Heard them Stirring from FF album and Sun Giant from SG album both have that ethereal haunting sound to them.